In the wake of last week's ruling that Novell, and not SCO, controls the copyrights covering UNIX, Novell is reassuring Unix users that it has no plans to follow in SCO's footsteps. Given that the company is no longer in the business of selling UNIX, it has no reason to pursue any copyright claims.

Blake Stowell, a former PR flak and one-time head of SCOsource, told Mozillazine that ALL OS vendors were potentially subject to litigation because all OSes included SCOX IP. He specifically mentioned MS, Apple and the BSDs. Judge Kimball has posted a detailed ruling that places that claim irretrievably in the bit bucket.

Why Sun and HP were declared "clean" without ever doing a code review and Linux was declared to be a target even though their own code reviews (plural) had found NOTHING is a key to understanding that the suits they initiated were merely a way of keeping the company from going under since they had never made a profit and had only 6 months working capital left at the time they lauched this abomination of a "legal" proceeding.